Pakistan may be rated among the top emerging economies but sadly
even the Bangla Desh appears to be doing better than Pakistan.
FE Reserves of Bangla Desh reached $29.1-billion in April 2106. Bagola Desh has set $37-billion as export target for 2016-2017 fiscal year.
http://www.dhakatribune.com/business/2016/jul/14/bangladesh-sets-37-bn-export-target
On the other hand, Pakistan has barely crossed $23-billion FE level with unlikely to achieve her r=export target of $35-billion by 2018.
http://tribune.com.pk/story/1116825/trade-policy-framework-exports-unlikely-reach-2018-target/
Pakistan’s Trade deficit is close to $20-billion which is about twice that of Bangla Desh.
Thus while we may jump with joy at the occasional good news, the fact remains that until such time we completely eliminate the poison of extremism/jihadism and improve Law & Order situation, things are not likely to improve much.
Obviously our politicians couldn't care less about the Law & Order situation. Unscrupulous PPP gov’t in Sind is hesitating to extend Rangers mandate because they don’t want any impediments in their pursuit of illegal personal wealth.
Imran Khan’s’ ambitions have no bounds either. Instead of going thru the parliament & the courts; Taliban Khan is going to start an agitation campaign a couple of weeks from now; certainly not a conducive environment for the economic progress.